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-RBA *Minnesota *Minnesota Statewide *January 13, 2005 *MNST0501.13 -Birds mentioned
Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: January 13, 2005
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://biosci.umn.edu/~mou/
Reports: (763) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel
Transcriber: Anthony Hertzel (ahertzel@sihope.com)
This is the Minnesota Birding Report for Thursday, January 13th.
A YELLOW-BILLED LOON was discovered in Two Harbors, Lake County over the weekend and was seen as recently as the 12th. The bird was found on Lake Superior near Lighthouse point. A pair of HARLEQUIN DUCKS has also been present on the east side of breakwall.
The irruption of northern owls continues in Minnesota, as GREAT GRAY OWLS are now being reported moving south in large numbers into Carlton, Pine, Itasca, Aitkin, and Crow Wing counties. NORTHERN HAWK OWLS seem to have settled in but can still be found in places such as the Sax-Zim bog in St. Louis County. On the 5th, a SNOWY OWL was at the railroad yards in Proctor, St. Louis County.
The BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was found again on the 11th on the Mississippi River east of Hastings in Dakota County. It was once again in with a group of about 100 COMMON GOLDENEYE.
An apparent gray-phase GYRFALCON was seen briefly in Two Harbors on the 9th, flying past the lighthouse and down shore in the direction of Duluth.
On the 8th, 365 gulls were present at Black Dog Lake in Dakota County, including a GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL and two GLAUCOUS GULLS.
SPRUCE GROUSE were seen on the 9th along state highway 1 between mile post numbers 306-305 and at 301 in Lake County. Five more were just west of State Highway 73 on St. Louis County Road 85 on the 8th.
On the 8th, an AMERICAN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER and two BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKERS were seen along the McDavitt Road in the Sax-Zim bog. From St. Louis County Road 7, go two miles west on Sax Road, then about two and a half miles north on McDavitt Road.
A TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE was relocated on the 7th at Leif Ericson Park in Duluth, in the conifers near the Viking ship replica.
On the 11th, a VARIED THRUSH was in a crabapple tree at Wilson Hall Courtyard of Itasca Community College in Itasca County. This is along U.S. Highway 169 in Grand Rapids.
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